The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not timed per se, but depending on the competition, missed shots result in extra distance or time being added to the contestant's total.
Ricco Groß is a former German biathlete. He is one of the most successful biathletes of all time at the Winter Olympics and the World Championships.
Michael Greis is a former German biathlete.
Halvard Hanevold was a Norwegian biathlete.
Andreas Zingerle is an Italian former biathlete. At the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, Zingerle won a bronze medal in the relay. At the World Championships Zingerle accumulated one individual gold medal and three golds and a bronze in relay and team events.
Michal Šlesingr is a Czech former biathlete.
Daniel Mesotitsch is an Austrian former biathlete.
Arnd Peiffer is a German former biathlete. His greatest achievements were sprint victories in the 2018 Winter Olympics and the Biathlon World Championships 2011. During his career, he also won three World Championship relay golds as well as several other Olympic and World Championship medals.
Simon Eder is an Austrian biathlete.
Lowell Bailey is an American biathlon coach and retired biathlete who competed from 2001 until 2018.
Lukas Hofer is an Italian biathlete.
Dorothea Wierer is an Italian biathlete competing in the Biathlon World Cup. Together with Karin Oberhofer, Dominik Windisch and Lukas Hofer she won a bronze medal in the Mixed relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea she won again the bronze medal in the Mixed relay with Lisa Vittozzi, Lukas Hofer and Dominik Windisch. At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, she won her first individual medal in the Sprint. She is the 2019 Mass Start World Champion and the 2020 Pursuit and Individual World Champion.
Vladimir Iliev is a Bulgarian biathlete.
Tiril Kampenhaug Eckhoff is a Norwegian former biathlete.
Laura Dahlmeier is a retired German biathlete. Dahlmeier started in her first world cup races in the 2012/13 season. In 2014, she participated in the Winter Olympics in Sochi. She won a record of five gold medals at the World Championships of 2017. In 2018 she became the first woman to win the biathlon sprint and pursuit in the same Olympics. During her career she has won a total of two golds and one bronze at the Olympics, seven gold medals, three silver medals and five bronze medals at World Championships, one overall World Cup and two discipline World Cup titles. Dahlmeier announced her retirement from competition in May 2019, at the age of 25. In October 2019, she released a children's book.
Philipp Horn is a German biathlete. He competed at the Biathlon World Championships 2020.
Karoline Offigstad Knotten is a Norwegian biathlete. She has competed in the Biathlon World Cup since 2018, and represented Norway at the Biathlon World Championships 2020 and the 2022 Winter Olympics.
The 2023–24 Biathlon World Cup – Stage 1 was the first event of the season and was held in Östersund, Sweden, from 25 November to 3 December 2023. The event consisted of three individual competitions and two relay races for both genders and two mixed relays. World cup leaders after the events in Östersund were Philipp Nawrath for men and Franziska Preuß for the women.
David Zobel is a German biathlete. He made his Biathlon World Cup debut in 2021 in Östersund.
Lucas Fratzscher is a German biathlete. He is the winner of the overall IBU Cup standings for the 2019/20 season.
